In case anyone cares

I’m out of town over the weekend and plan on moving Monday.  Just so you know.

Planning with Jnkolm

Two posts in one day? What is the world coming to. Anyway, enjoy some of our silliness on AIM after the break.

Doth thou protect too much?

So it’s the night before Acen, and my mom comes downstairs to ask me a question.

“Who’s driving tomorrow?”
“My buddy Joe is, in fact, driving tomorrow.”
“Oh good, I was just going to come down and warn you that driving in Chicago is more difficult.”
Are we really going to have this conversation?
“Uh, mom, I think I know that.”
“No, it’s really more difficult.”

Apparently yes, we did have that conversation.  And it ended with her being offended that I knew Chicago was a big city with large quantities of traffic.  I can accept you want to protect me.  But please don’t do it unless you’ve thought through it a bit to see if it’s actually going to help me or if it’s going to get you upset at me because I already knew.  Telling me there’s lots of traffic in Chicago, is silly.  Telling me we’re going to be traveling on some toll roads is not.  But you didn’t tell me that, I just happened to see it on the map that I printed off a few minutes ago.

Anyway, Acen tomorrow, I plan to be late enough to miss opening ceremonies but not so late as to be gauche.  Which puts it around 2 PM.  And given the way they monkey around with badges there, I probably won’t get anything done until 3.  Whose Line is from 9:30 PM Saturday to whenever we decide we’re tired of entertaining the crowd.

Freedom!

I took both of my finals today, and sold back my Math book, so I’m free! My current plans are to move to Indianapolis in a few weeks, once I get just a couple things straightened out. I’m trying to get something like a help desk job, if that doesn’t work, then I guess I’ll settle for a minimum wage job. Anything to get an income going. If all goes well I’ll be staying there for quite a while, it makes a lot of things so much easier.

Additionally, I’m slowly getting the Whose Line videos from Anime Punch uploaded. They should be done by the time I go to bed. You can click the Youtube link in the side bar to see them and the show at Sugoicon. Acen’s turn around time should be significantly shorter, mostly because I’ll be living in the cameraman’s house. XD

Lucky Break

Well, one of my finals got canceled because the teacher couldn’t find proctors for it. That’s cool for me, since I was already pulling an A in the class. For those that really needed the final to pull up their grade… on the one hand, sorry, on the other hand, if your grade is broken without the final, I’d have to wonder how well you’d do with it.

Beyond that, I’m going to Indiana this weekend. Jessica is coming down, we’ve got plans to watch Evangelion – You are (Not) Alone. So hopefully I’ll be able to review it next week for Hikikomori. I think we’re also going to try and go boating on Saturday. With Ben, Joe, Nathan, Jessica, and myself in one house, whatever we do is going to be epic.

Spoilers with jnkolm

Hoorah, school is almost done. All I’ve got left to do are three finals, one or two this week and then whatever’s left next week. Then I’m out for the summer. I might move to Indy, since I’m in the online degree program, I can go pretty much anywhere I want. And Indy is just infinitely more convenient for the anime conventioning and such, no more adding 4 extra hours to get anywhere. Well, except Anime St. Louis, but I’m sure I can somehow coordinate that with coming back to for a doctor appointment or some such.

That’s all I’ve got of actual stuff to write on. Outside of school and anime and the obvious two video games, my life is pretty much nil for until next week. But, I do have relative named Joe, also jnkolm, that I converse with alot. We come up with some… interesting discussions. So, since I can, I’ll attach one of them to this blog. Keep reading after the break. And if for some reason you can’t read the title, SPOILERS!

Rant: Pharos Lighthouse

Alternate title: How to ruin a game in 100 easy steps.

I originally posted this a few months ago on my Myspace blog, but seeing as it’s just as likely to be read there as here (read: probably not), I’ll repost it.  And for the record, yes, I’ve beaten FFXII since then.

So I’ve almost finished Final Fantasy XII.  Overall, I think it’s a good game.  Storywise, it’s a step up from pretty much everything Square has offered in recently.  Combat-wise, I think it’s the best ever.  I thought FFX-2 was a step in the right direction, and the free-flowing dynamic in this game is even better.  And as for difficulty level, this is the first FF game since 1 (yeah, a LONG time) to really put my party in danger, though I suppose some of that could be my penchant to micromanage more than let the computer take control.